Hardware Operations Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Establish, uphold, and oversee project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.

• Coordinate daily operations across various hardware development and manufacturing projects.

• Monitor project advancement and pinpoint schedule risks, resource limitations, and pending actions.

• Facilitate collaboration among engineering, firmware, manufacturing, procurement, and program delivery teams.

• Maintain project documentation, including meeting notes, action logs, and status updates.

• Assist leadership in prioritizing conflicting hardware development and delivery demands.

• Organize project reviews and convey decisions along with unresolved issues.

• Create, organize, assign, and manage Jira tickets, epics, and project boards.

• Oversee hardware project tracking within the project management system.

• Monitor ticket status, ownership, due dates, dependencies, and completion rates.

• Collaborate with technical leads to capture and prioritize engineering tasks.

• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to reflect project progress and team workload visibility.

• Identify overdue actions, workflow bottlenecks, and potential scheduling impacts.

• Facilitate ongoing enhancement of hardware project management processes.

• Ensure hardware capabilities are included in opportunity development, customer conversations, and proposals.

• Coordinate between the hardware team and SPECTR business development stakeholders.

• Track hardware requirements and commitments throughout the opportunity lifecycle.

• Collaborate with technical leads to confirm feasibility, timelines, and product availability.

• Maintain awareness of anticipated hardware demand for manufacturing and resource planning.

• Prepare materials for leadership reviews, project meetings, and operational discussions.

• Develop consolidated hardware project status reports and dashboards.

• Track KPIs related to project execution, milestone achievement, and delivery performance.

• Maintain centralized documentation of decisions, commitments, and unresolved actions.

• Provide administrative and organizational support to hardware leadership as required.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, project management, engineering management, operations, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 3–5 years of experience in project coordination, project management, program operations, or a similar role.

• Familiarity with project management and workflow tracking platforms.

• Strong organizational skills with the capability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

• Experience in tracking schedules, milestones, deliverables, and action items.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Proficient in coordinating across technical and non-technical teams.

• Skilled in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

• Ability to work independently, identify issues, and proactively drive actions to completion.

• Willingness to travel as needed for customer discovery, site assessments, demonstrations, pilots, deployments, and other business needs.

• Available during core business hours; additional coordination may be necessary based on customer and project requirements.

• Applicants must meet eligibility criteria for a U.S. Government security clearance.

• Only U.S. Citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• LMI will only consider applicants with security clearances or those eligible for security clearances.

• Nice to have: experience in supporting hardware engineering, product development, manufacturing, or technical programs.

• Nice to have: familiarity with government contracting and federal acquisition environments.

• Nice to have: experience in supporting business development, capture management, or proposal development.

• Nice to have: knowledge of product development lifecycles, manufacturing processes, or supply chain operations.

• Nice to have: experience in developing dashboards, workflows, and project reporting tools.

• Nice to have: familiarity with Agile, traditional, or hybrid project management methodologies.

• Nice to have: PMP, CAPM, or a similar project management certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Competitive salary and performance bonuses.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Supportive and inclusive work environment.